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Using Technology to Create Classroom Community: WordPress, Timelines, and Collaborative Learning
What does it mean to teach "whole people?" In this talk, Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Assistant Professor at Fordham’s Department of Theology, will reflect on the use of class blogs as mechanisms to foster a sense of community among students, encourage collaboration in and beyond class, promote rigorous learning, and help students connect what they learn in class to the full lives that they live.
Instagram: Keeping connected and creating community
Choosing a social network students actually use can make communication in and outside class much more fluid. Esther Lomas-Sampedro, PhD, Spanish Lecturer and Coordinator at Fordham’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, will show how she uses Instagram to better allow participation and interaction in a variety of ways.
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Su-Je Cho, associate professor of Childhood Special Education in the Division of Curriculum and Teaching at the Fordham University Graduate School of Education, will review her experience developing a student-friendly, fully online course with 2U - especially her efforts to make the course as accessible as possible. Examples from the course will be shown to facilitate a conversation with those in attendance.
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In a world where technology is changing faster than ever, it’s important for educators not to just keep up with what’s currently available, but to think ahead. Kristen Treglia, Senior Instructional Technologist, will discuss key findings from major technology reports that highlight the trends, challenges, and emerging technologies that impact higher education. Reports include:
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Securing web applications in an academic computing environment can be a complex task. In this session, Matthew Tams, Director of Application Security at Fordham University, will review the challenges of using Commercial off-the Shelf (COTS) software; secure deployments; and applying proper “Cyber Hygiene” habits.
Costantino
Academic librarians are dealing with the high price of information overload, as our students often are unable to distinguish between objective and biased news sources. Fordham librarians produced a short video to guide students on how and where to turn for reliable data.
Presenters:
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Join Google as they present on teaching and learning products. Highlights include accessibility features, G Suite tips, and a new product called Course Kit, which enables instructors to create, analyze and grade assignments within your LMS using Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive.
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Poll Everywhere
Usha Sankar is a faculty member in the Biological Sciences department, and one of the topics she is interested in is how to keep students engaged and motivated in "hard" upper division STEM courses, specifically Human Physiology. She has been teaching Human Physiology, among other courses for over 7 years at Fordham. She has used Jeopardy format for quizzes, surveys, clickers, and polling software. She has used Polleverywhere for a few semesters and finds it to be an interactive tool that serves to reinforce the assigned reading material and also a great way to start discussions.
Dr. Sankar can talk about the use of PollEverywhere polls in formative assessments.
Audience members can join her presentation with the link https://www.polleverywhere.com/register?p=6a24i-1egz&u=ZNnzEAz1
Podcasting and the History Graduate Classroom
Nicholas Paul asked students in his History graduate seminar to record podcasts about different topics that they covered during the semester. The exercise had three goals: first, to "flip" the classroom, by getting students talking about their reading in advance of the class meeting; second, to practice addressing a general audience; and third to create an enduring, public-facing product highlighting their abilities in reading, analysis, world-shaping, and storytelling.
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Did you know that while Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website online, there is a significant gender gap as well as gaps in subject areas such as the humanities, STEM and social science areas. Guy Robinson (Natural Sciences) and Kristen Treglia (Fordham IT) will discuss how how faculty and students can share their scholarly expertise with the world by evaluating articles, analyzing the content & quality of sources, and increasing coverage of on underrepresented people and topics.
Wikipedia (slides)
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Personal Data is an important asset for our organization and plays an important role in our daily activities. In this session, Silvio Balzano, Director of IT Risk & Integrity, and Lynne Chernow, Executive Consultant, will review your responsibilities in protecting Fordham assets and learn how to keep your personal data secure on devices and online services.
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Lindsay Karp, Senior Instructional Technologist at Faculty Technology Services, will lead an overview on providing an inclusive, accessible experience for your students. This session will consist of a review of some ADA basics, a demo on fixing a document, and then showcasing the Blackboard Ally accessibility tool and the Sensus Access document conversion tool.
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Success in digital pedagogy means working closely with teams across the institution, including IT, libraries and other resources available to faculty. In this breakout session, Katherina Fostano, Visual Resources Curator at Fordham’s Art History Department, and Heather V. Hill, Instructional Technologist at Fordham IT, are showcasing successful pedagogical collaborations between faculty, Instructional Technologists, Librarians, and other information professionals around Fordham. Each participant will highlight their own experience working with an institutional computing environment that allows faculty to conduct research and experiment with innovative digital media and technology in the classroom.
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If you’re not managing your digital identity, then someone else is. Join Marilyn Bisberg (GSE) and Kristen Treglia (Fordham IT) to learn about best practices and tips for protecting your online data and privacy with discussion on ways to best leverage social media for teaching and research.
Managing the Default (slides)
Link to EdTech page on Managing Digital Identity
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Password Managers are helpful tools but have risks. In this session, Matthew Tams, Director of Application Security at Fordham University, will review Password Managers in general; password reset features; the future of passwords in an enterprise environment; and the use of special characters.